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Foundations

基础概念

• 1What a 1,800-Year-Old Book Taught Me About Anxiety
  March 17, 2026 · 7 min read
• 28 Hours of Sleep, Still Wrecked? Ask Your Organ Clock
  March 19, 2026 · 6 min read
• 3Qi Isn't Magic. It's Your Body's Operating System
  March 24, 2026 · 10 min read
• 4Why Your Body Feels Like a Traffic Jam
  March 26, 2026 · 9 min read
• 76 Signs You're Actually Healthy — Beyond Lab Results
  April 7, 2026 · 9 min read
• 13The Chinese Character for 'Medicine' Contains Music
  April 28, 2026 · 10 min read
• 1410 Questions Ancient Doctors Asked (Yours Never Will)
  April 30, 2026 · 11 min read
• 15Your Tongue Knows Before Your Blood Test Does
  May 5, 2026 · 14 min read
• 16Yin & Yang ≠ Good vs Evil — Balance Is the Point
  May 7, 2026 · 8 min read
• 17The Five Elements Are Not a Personality Test
  May 12, 2026 · 8 min read
• 18Your Body Is a Kingdom, Not a Machine
  May 14, 2026 · 10 min read
• 19Jing, Qi, Shen — The Three Treasures That Make You You
  May 19, 2026 · 7 min read
• 33How Ancient China Survived Summer Without AC
  July 2, 2026 · 11 min read
• 34Eat With The Sun: The TCM Clock For Food
  July 7, 2026 · 10 min read
• 35The Season Your Body Is Actually In
  July 9, 2026 · 8 min read
• 36Surviving Major Heat: What Ancient China Knew
  July 14, 2026 · 12 min read
• 37Move Like Water: A Workout That Works With You
  July 16, 2026 · 12 min read
• 38The One Kitchen Ingredient TCM Doctors Love
  July 21, 2026 · 9 min read
• 39What TCM Can Learn From Sourdough
  July 23, 2026 · 14 min read
• 40A 2,000-Year-Old Spring Guide to Reinvention
  July 28, 2026 · 11 min read
• 41Why the Ancients Said "Don't Hate the Sun"
  July 31, 2026 · 10 min read
• 42The Season of Letting Go: Autumn in the Neijing
  August 4, 2026 · 12 min read
• 44Li Qiu: Why Chinese Reach for Pears in Autumn
  August 7, 2026 · 10 min read
• 45San Fu Tian: The Summer Moxibustion Window
  August 11, 2026 · 11 min read
• 46Why Hasn't Your Acupuncturist Mentioned Moxibustion?
  August 13, 2026 · 9 min read
• 47Moxibustion vs. Your Heating Pad
  August 18, 2026 · 11 min read
• 48Meridians: A 2,200-Year-Old Map, Not Energy Lines
  August 20, 2026 · 11 min read
• 49Chu Shu Is Over. Now the Air Starts Stealing Water.
  August 25, 2026 · 12 min read
• 50The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic Is a Library
  August 27, 2026 · 11 min read
• 51The Physics of Acupuncture (No, It's Not Magic)
  September 1, 2026 · 11 min read
• 52Baduanjin: The 800-Year-Old Exercise and Blood Pressure
  September 3, 2026 · 11 min read
• 53White Dew: The Morning the Grass Turns Silver
  September 8, 2026 · 12 min read
• 54The Cracks, the Coating, the Color: Reading the Tongue
  September 10, 2026 · 12 min read
• 55He Gu (LI4): The 'Hand Monster' of Headache Lore
  September 15, 2026 · 12 min read
• 56Does “Burning Weeds” Really Work?
  September 17, 2026 · 12 min read
• 57Gui Zhi — The Cinnamon Twig That Changed Medicine
  September 22, 2026 · 12 min read
• 58Why Grief Lives in Your Lungs
  September 24, 2026 · 11 min read
• 59Gua Sha Isn't a Beauty Hack
  September 27, 2026 · 11 min read
• 60The 8 "Extraordinary" Vessels
  September 29, 2026 · 11 min read
• 61Are You Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water?
  October 1, 2026 · 11 min read
• 62How to Explain Moxibustion to Your Scared Partner
  October 6, 2026 · 11 min read
• 63Overthinking Is a Spleen Problem
  October 8, 2026 · 11 min read
• 64Shen, Hun, Po — TCM's Map of the Mind
  October 13, 2026 · 11 min read
• 65Your Insomnia Has a Type — A TCM Field Guide
  October 16, 2026 · 11 min read
• FN01"Drink More Hot Water": Why It's Said for Everything Field Note
  August 19, 2026 · 3 min read
• FN02Chu Shu (End of Heat): When Summer Lets Go Field Note
  August 23, 2026 · 3 min read
• FN05Cupping Isn't Bruising. Those Marks Are Something Else Field Note
  September 5, 2026 · 4 min read
• FN06Your Spice Rack Is Secretly a Chinese Medicine Cabinet Field Note
  September 9, 2026 · 4 min read
• FN07Don't Zip Up Yet: The Old Chinese Rule for Autumn Field Note
  September 16, 2026 · 4 min read

Cold & Defense

太阳 · Taiyang

• 8Why Your Cold Hands Are Warning You
  April 9, 2026 · 6 min read
• 9The Castle Inside You: Your Body's 6-Layer Defense
  April 14, 2026 · 10 min read
• 11It's Just a Cold — Why That Sentence Is Dangerous
  April 21, 2026 · 10 min read
• 22Wind-Cold Is Not A Weather Report
  May 28, 2026 · 10 min read

Heat & Digestion

阳明 · Yangming

• 6That Heavy Feeling in Your Limbs? It's Not Laziness
  April 2, 2026 · 5 min read
• 23Your Fever Might Be Your Friend
  June 2, 2026 · 9 min read
• 25When the Fire Won't Go Out — The Yangming Stage
  June 9, 2026 · 10 min read
• FN04Shang Huo: The Fire That Isn't Really Fire Field Note
  August 26, 2026 · 4 min read

Balance & Emotions

少阳 · Shaoyang

• 5Your Body Runs on a Clock You Didn't Set
  March 31, 2026 · 10 min read
• 10Stop Feeding What You're Trying to Fight
  April 16, 2026 · 10 min read
• 12Your Shoulder, Your Gut, Your Insomnia: One Root?
  April 23, 2026 · 9 min read
• 21Your Body Doesn't Need a Warrior — Start Warming
  May 26, 2026 · 13 min read
• 24When Your Body Is Stuck Between Two Fires
  June 4, 2026 · 10 min read
• 32Your Anxiety Is Not in Your Head — The Liver Qi Link
  July 3, 2026 · 10 min read
• FN03Is Your Body Breaking Down — or Crying for Help? Field Note
  August 24, 2026 · 4 min read

Six Stages Deep Dive

• 20What Zhang Zhongjing Knew That Your Doctor Doesn't
  May 21, 2026 · 11 min read
• 26When Food Stops Being Food — The Taiyin Stage
  June 11, 2026 · 8 min read
• 27The Most Dangerous Quiet: When Sleep Doesn't Restore
  June 16, 2026 · 11 min read
• 28Why Yang Tonics Are Not About Heat
  June 18, 2026 · 10 min read
• 29The Fire Inside You Is Going Out
  June 23, 2026 · 10 min read
• 30When the Body Reaches Its Last Line — The Jueyin Stage
  June 30, 2026 · 11 min read
• 31How a Cold Becomes Cancer (Over Years)
  June 25, 2026 · 13 min read